Improvement in egg-carriers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FRANK M. THOMSON, OF JERSEY CITY, NEWJERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO FRANK M. THOMSON AND EDWARD HASLEHURST, OF NEW YORK,N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN EGG-ARRIERS'.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l l-6,960, datedJanuary 27, 1874; application filed November 10,1873.

i is a Vertical section of the same with the cover on the box in theline w x.

The nature of my inven t-ion consists in strips of corrugated materialbent into circular form, in conbination with vertical plain-facedstrips, also bent into circular form, for the purpose of forming auegg-carrier.

By this costruction a greater number of eggs can be safely packed inagiven area than is possible in a carrier whose cells are formed whollyby corrugated strips, the combined corrugated and plain stripspermitting at least five eggs to be packed in a space which only willpermit three when eorrugated strips alone are used.

To enable others skilled in the art to nake and use my invention, I willproceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

A is the cylindrical body of the egg-carrier case. It is made of stitfbrown paper, known as pasteboard, the board being bent into circularform and the ends lapped and riVct-ed together. In the botton of thiscylinder a stout circular bottom, B, of wood, is inserted, and the loweredge of the paper cylinder riveted to it, as shown. G is the rim of thetop of the case. It is made of the same material and in the same manneras the body A, and in its upper end a circular top, D, of stout wood, isinserted, and the rim riveted to it, as shown. E are the corrugated andF the plain partitions, made of lighter paper than the body, and placedwithin the case in the following order: First, a corrugated cylinder isplaced within the case against the inner circumference thereof; next, aplain cylinder is placed against the inner surface of the corru- 'gatedcylinder, and then a corrugated cylinder against the inner surface ofthe plain oylinder; and, next, a plain cylinder against the innersurface of the corrugated cylinder; and, finally, a corrugated centralcylinder. The number may be Varied according to the size of the case,but the order of arrangen'ent ought to be preserved.

The case is generally made of a depth to contain several tiers of cells,and between each pair of tiers and over the top one a horizontal paperpartition, Gr, is placed, and in the center of each of these partitionsa hole for the finger is made in order to facilitate lifting thesepartitions out of place.

I do not claim the use of paper as a matcrial for egg-carriers, nor do Iclaim paper and wood combined; neither do I claim the bend- 'ing ofpieces of paper into a circular form, so

